Why do humans play God? Nick Spencer vs Emily Qureshi Hurst presented by Andy Kind

For too long, the ‘science and religion’ debate has fixated on creation, evolution, cosmology, miracles and quantum theory, and not enough on the essence of what it means to be human. But this is a mistake argues one of our guests today, Christian academic Nick Spencer, Senior Fellow at Theos, in his new book ‘Playing God: science, religion and the future of humanity.’ Back on the show is Emily Qureshi-Hurst expert on the philosophy of time. Emily is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College, University of Oxford and together Nick and Emily sort out the role of science and belief when it comes to questions of personhood and the future of humanity. Ably led by host Andy Kind, Unbelievable? digs back into that perennial question, ‘can science and religion come together - furiously or fruitfully - over the status and nature of what it means to be human’?



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Read Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite's book Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity

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Read Emily Qureshi-Hurst's book God, Salvation and the Problem of Spacetime

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At Oxford: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/emily-qureshi-hurst

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